Sunday, March 16, 2008

Cylinder Head Refinshing

Some minor work underway his weekend. Finished up installing the battery tray and some other minor stainless steel nuts and bolts around the bike. I'm in a holding pattern waiting on some parts to arrive from Blue Moon so I decided to get the rust off of the cylinder heads.Its was really bothering me. The pictures made them look worse then they were so its nice to get a clean finish on them.

A fairly simple but time consuming process. Instead of dismantling the heads I simply taped up everything around them to allow for several coats of heat resistant paint. Dont forget the heater - its still cold in the Northeast!

Here's the BEFORE and AFTER shots. Looks a lot better...

Looking at these - new headers would be awsome! However, they arent in the budget right now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Did you clean or polish the cylinder heads first, or just paint them?